{"product_id":"2940151575164","title":"A Hoarse Half-human Cheer","description":"A medieval schoolmaster whose students stabbed him to death with their pens---his name lives on in the College of Saint Cassian of Imola, a school with spectacular troubles.  World War II has ended, and overnight  Saint Cash’s has recklessly expanded from a dozen students to 4,500.  Unknown to the honest clerics who think they run the place, the Newark Mafia find the college a handy front for dealing in war surplus materials.   It’s a tough scene for a green kid like apprentice mortician Moon Gogarty, even tougher for basketball coach Douglas Knox, a priest with a drinking problem who receives mysterious threats on his life.   And both Knox and Moon face a powerful temptation:  mobster mistress Aisling Vastasi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sinister comedy, the mob blackmails a pedophile priest in order to take over his lucrative charity, The Children’s Crusade.  Events follow fast: a car-bombing, a fiery holocaust, an exorcism that ends in terror, a raid on a brothel, a college commencement that turns into a shoot-out, a play-off basketball game in which rival gamblers have bribed both teams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlternately blood-curdling and hilarious, this is a gripping story full of sudden twists.   Devotees of the thrillers of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Janet Evanovich will find A Hoarse Half-human Cheer in the same league","brand":"Curtis Brown Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102626038000,"sku":"2940151575164","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151575164_p0.jpg?v=1764012020","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151575164","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}